Paul Bekker
Orchestral music is the most popular of all musical forms. Highly evolved, it also exhibits special characteristics according to time and place. This book tells the story of the different generations of orchestral types, from the beginnings of the classical orchestra of Haydn to the mechanistic orchestra of Stravinsky and Schoenberg.More
Douglas Moore
Here is a book written for all who derive real pleasure from listening to music and want to learn more about it. Its aim is to increase enjoyment through intelligent appreciation. Without presupposing any technical knowledge on the part of the reader, Douglas Moore explains what happens in a piece of music, analyzing familiar compositions as examples.More
Aaron Copland
Whose fault is it that the artist counts for so little in the public mind? Has it always been thus? Is there something wrong, perhaps, with the nature of the art work being created in America? Is our system of education lacking in its attitude toward the art product? Should...More
Douglas Moore
Revised Edition
Douglas Moore, whose Listening to Music has made him known to a large audience of music lovers, has here written a book which will be welcomed by every ambitious listener who would develop his musical assurance and broaden his taste so as to achieve the greatest possible enjoyment from his musical experiences.More
Marc Pincherle, Christopher Hatch
A definitive biography of the great eighteenth century Venetian composer of the Baroque.More
Alfred Einstein, Paul Henry Lang
Alfred Einstein in Essays on Music brings his far-ranging scholarship, his writing abilities, and his wit and humor to bear on a variety of musical subjects, such as the mortality of opera, early concert life, words and music, Strauss and Hoffmansthal, Wagner and Ludwig II, Opus I and Opus Ultimum of many famous composers, together with a series of essays on Mozart. With his sharp eye for problems and an uncanny instinct for their solutions, Dr. Einstein has here made not only significant additions to musical letters, but also enjoyable and rewarding reading for the music lover.More
Paul Henry Lang
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Vincent Persichetti
One of the most important books on contemporary music in the twentieth century.More
Gustave Reese
Revised Edition
A complete analysis of the development of music during the Renaissance including a discussion of the contributions made by each country.More
Walter Piston
In this book Walter Piston again displays those qualities that distinguished his earlier books, Harmony and Counterpoint.More
Carl Philipp Emanuel (C. P. E.) Bach, William J. Mitchell
Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments is a classic of musical literature in the true sense of the word.More
Walter Piston
The art of counterpoint is the art of combining melodic lines. The essence of counterpoint, however, is something deeper than a process of manipulation. It is an ingredient of the inner vitality of music and is found in nearly all music. It is to an understanding of counterpoint as such that this book is directed.More